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Andrew Metcalfe was appointed Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs in July 2005. Mr Metcalfe was a Deputy Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet between August 2002 and July 2005 where he was responsible for coordination of policy advice to the Prime Minister on counter-terrorism, security, border protection, law enforcement, defence, intelligence, foreign affairs and machinery of government issues. Mr Metcalfe was born in Toowoomba, Queensland and educated at the Toowoomba Grammar School (Dux, 1976) and the University of Queensland. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws.
"Currently, around 43% of our population was either born overseas or has at least one parent who was born overseas"
"All Australians except Indigenous people have at least one ancestor who has arrived from overseas in the past 218 years"
Andrew Metcalfe, Thursday 16 November, 2006